Heliciculture
- Snail farming UK: Heliciculture. Snail farming in the UK. Since making
this website, I discover
that "heliculture" is not the correct term for snail farming.
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Snailfarming
In Australia: Raise snails for your own consumption or for a commercial
business. The time is
right to utilise a natural food resource that is literally at your feet!
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Caution:

It is important
to clean out and treat the snails before cooking it, as snails may eat
carrion and fungi. These could contain toxins and be harmful to man.

CAUTION!
Be very careful before deciding to use the snails from your own back
yard or front yard for your next dinner party. Try to ascertain if anyone
has used snail bait for eradication of snails in you neighborhood.
Your neighbor's may be using snail poison. These snails could then migrate
to your yard. REMEMBER! Some snails may only contain very small amounts
of poison; so small as to not be lethal to the snail-but there may be
enough residual poison that if you consumed enough of these snails IT
COULD KILL YOU!If
in doubt, Please choose to be snail smart and buy your escargot from
a reliable source or collect in known safe areas.These
snails are a major pest and many areas use posions; So,
PLEASE BEWARE!

The old French
used to feed their snails, picked up from nature, fine herbs, especially
thyme. Because of its antiseptic properties, thyme eliminated the toxins
and intensified the meat flavor.

There are some
reports of snail being farms by the Romans during their conquest of
Europe. The snails were fed with flour and wine before they were slaughtered
in older to enhance the meat flavor that was served to the emperors.

( the French "petit-gris" or small grey snail, escargot chagrine,"
or "La Zigrinata

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The
edible European Brown Snail or Brown Garden Snail (Helix asperas), is the
common garden snail or French "Escargot" which is considered a
pest in gardens and yards all over the USA, especially in California. Also
known in France as the Petit Gris or Vineyard snail, it was probably first
brought to the North American continent about 1850.

CAUTION!
Be very careful before deciding to use the snails from your own back
yard or front yard for your next dinner party. Try to ascertain if anyone
has used snail bait for eradication of snails in you neighborhood.
Your neighbor's may be using snail poison. These snails could then migrate
to your yard. REMEMBER! Some snails may only contain very small amounts
of poison; so small as to not be lethal to the snail-but there may be
enough residual poison that if you consumed enough of these snails IT
COULD KILL YOU!If
in doubt, Please choose to be snail smart and buy your escargot from
a reliable source or collect in known safe areas.These
snails are a major pest and many areas use posions; So,
PLEASE BEWARE!

This is a small
size snail. The shell diameter can vary from 18 to 30mm and its height
from 20 to 30mm. URL

Australia
Alert:
Have you seen a green snail in your garden, market garden, farm or nursery?
If so, ring Agriculture Western Australia on (08) 9368 3336.It
is olive green, unmarked and white fleshed. It could be a menace to
plants of all sorts. We must stop its spread.

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The snail lives in gardens, hedges, and dunes, where it feeds on
vegetation. The snail got its scientific name because the rings
on its shell resemble vermicelli (a type of pasta). It is also sometimes
called the "noodle snail."

Rigatella
snails commonly have about five brown rings on their cream-colored
shells. Their eyes sit on stalks, or tentacles, which protrude from
their heads. The snails are 17 to 21 millimeters high and 20 to
25 millimeters wide. ...